PhD graduates

Name	Year of award	Thesis title	Supervisor(s)
Doug Battersby	2017	Knowing and Feeling in Late Modernist Fiction	Professor Derek Attridge Professor John Bowen
Melony Bethala	2018	Women, institutions and the politics of writing: A comparative study of contemporary Anglophone Irish and Indian women poets	Professor Claire Chambers Professor Matt Campbell
Elise Bikker	2022	Mind over Matter: The Body Machine in Fiction of the long Nineteenth Century	Professor Geoffrey Wall Professor Mary Fairclough
Marissa Bolin	2019	Married Women, Law, and the Novel, 1838-1882: Representations of Bigamy, Property Law, Ceremonial Law, Divorce and Separation in the Victorian Novel	Dr Emma Major
Lola Boorman	2020	“Make grammar do”: the institutional and pedagogical impact of grammar on modern and contemporary American literature.	Dr Adam Kelly
Emily Bowles	2018	Changing Representations of Charles Dickens, 1857-1939	Professor John Bowen
Adam Bristow-Smith	2018	The Bildungsroman under Neoliberalism	Dr Adam Kelly
Sarah Cawthorne	2019	The Architectures of Knowledge: Spatial Metaphors in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophical Literature	Professor Helen Smith
Katie Crowther	2024	Georgian Paper Traces: Women’s Stories, Ephemeral Texts and Hidden Objects	Professor Chloe Wigston Smith
Rebecca Drake	2023	The sea in Middle English romance and Old Norse-Icelandic fornaldarsögur	Dr Nicola McDonald Professor Matthew Townend
Ashim Dutta	2018	Mystic Modernity: Yeats and Tagore	Professor Claire Chambers Professor Matt Campbell
Catherine Edwards	2023	Literary Covers: Secret writing in Cold War spy fiction and film	Professor Helen Smith Dr Bryan Radley
Tom Fletcher	2020	The Representation of Disability in English-language Poetry: British and American Perspectives	Dr Alice Hall Professor Matt Campbell
Dominic Gavin	2023	Marvell and the Book of Nature. The reading and misreading of nature in seventeenth-century pastoral	Professor Kevin Killeen Dr Jane Raisch
Fiona Hobbs-Milne	2019	A question of character: censorship and the political courtroom in British writing, 1792-1824	Professor Jon Mee
Antony Huen	2020	Contemporary Poets, the Visual Arts, and Ekphrasis	Professor Hugh Haughton
Daisy Johnson	2018	Representations of space and place in British children's literature	Professor Richard Walsh
Sauleha Kamal	2024	Can Words Save the World? The Contemporary Pakistani Novel, Human Rights and the Global Literary Marketplace	Professor Claire Chambers
Indrani Karmakar	2018	Motherhood, Literature and Society in Indian Women's Writing	Professor Claire Chambers
Francesca Killoran	2024	Whores, Harlots, and Harlequins: Locating Female Sympathies in 1790s Prostitute Narratives	Dr Emma Major
Jessica Lamothe	2018	Remedies Against Temptations: A Critical Edition of the Four Middle English Versions of William Flete's De Remediis Contra Temptaciones	Professor Linne Mooney
Mengchen Lang	2023	Rethinking the Literary Concept of Authorship Through Vladimir Nabokov and W. G. Sebald	Professor Richard Walsh
Elly McCausland	2016	Malory's Magic Book: King Arthur in Children's Literature, 1862-1960	Dr Trev Broughton Dr Matthew Townend
Jonathan McGovern	2019	Anti-Sedition Literature in England, 1536-1570	Professor Brian Cummings
Anna Mercer	2017	The Collaborative Literary Relationship of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	Professor Jim Watt Professor Harriet Guest
Diana Mudura	2023	Echolalias; or Retrieving Lost Languages in J. M. Coetzee's Post-apartheid Writing	Professor David Attwell Professor Claire Chambers
Adriana Murd Konings	2024	Literature of Suspicion: A Post-1945 Metaphysics	Dr Alexandra Kingston-Reese
Grace Murray	2024	Imagining a Space for Science in Early Modern How-To Manuals	Professor Helen Smith
Jennifer O'Connor	2024	Autistic Womanhood, Interoception & Connection: Representations of Autistic Women in British and Irish Literature between 2020 and 2023	Dr Alice Hall Dr JT Welsch
Kyra Piperides	2020	‘A place cannot produce poems: it can only not prevent them’: Philip Larkin and northern English poetry	Professor Matthew Campbell
Elizabeth Potter	2022	William Blake, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Marginalia	Professor Jon Mee
Madeline Potter	2020	Anglican Forms and Difficulties in the Poetry of Geoffrey Hill	Professor James Williams Professor Hugh Haughton
Jack Quin	2018	W.B. Yeats, Modernist Poetics and the Language of Sculpture	Professor Matthew Campbell
Alice Rhodes	2021	“Mechanic Art and Elocutionary Science”: Speech Production in British Literature, 1770s-1820s	Professor Mary Fairclough
Caroline Ritchie	2023	Visionary mapping in the work of William Blake	Professor Jon Mee Dr Amt Concannon
Joe Rollins	2019	From Apathy to Autonomy: Neoliberalism and American Fiction in the Long Nineties	Dr Adam Kelly
Timothy Rowbotham	2019	Historicity and Fictionality in the Icelandic 'fornaldarsögur'	Professor Elizabeth Tyler Professor Matthew Townend
Zaynab Seedat	2023	Writing the South Asian Muslim Terrorist: Politics, Religion and “Terror” Through a Postcolonial Lens	Professor Claire Chambers
Daniel South	2019	The Novel and the Public Sphere in the Internet Age	Dr Adam Kelly
Wiktoria Tunska	2024	Community of Emotions: Brexit, Contemporary Literature, and Affect	Dr Alexandra Kingston Reese
Anjali Vyas-Brannick	2023	Theorising Biocitizenship, 1550-1700	Professor Helen Smith
Yu-Hua Yen	2018	Narrating Selves: The Narrative Integrity of Fictional Autobiographies	Professor Derek Attridge Professor Richard Walsh